News Story School Using Webcam to Spy on Teens?

Courtesy DaniWeb IT Discussion Community (Featured Entries)  Fri, 02/26/2010 - 00:18

One of the biggest security stories so far this year is that of the high school that remotely triggered webcams in laptops given to students -- which the school said it only did to help track stolen laptops, and which some students and families said was a violation of their privacy, with the student in question filing a class-action lawsuit.

The school, Harriton in the Lower Merion School District, in a suburb of Philadelphia, said it has...


 

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